syria pledges to retaliate while its close ally iran warns of dire consequences after israel allegedly launches a bombing raid on a target near damascus. francaise it will soon handover the anti islamist offensive in mali to local troops just as reports surface of a lesser atrocities and war crimes committed by the mali and amid a media blackout. one out true in british taxpayers cry

foul amid revelations of a backdoor hypes further complicated but complicating what some say is an already bloated tax system. and obama's pick for defense secretary goes before the senate ahead of a potentially heated confirmation hearing for the vocal protests coming from the israeli valby. live from our studios in moscow you're watching archie with me and he said now our top story this hour syria says it may take action against israel after its fighter jets reportedly finally did syria's sovereignty and bombs a military research complex close to damascus meanwhile diplomats in the wrong say that the alleged attack hold significant implications for israel let's get more

details on this margin call us leader in television she joins us live paula what exactly have officials both in damascus and tehran said does it look like full scale combat action is just around the corner here. but it certainly is looking that way in. certainly what we are hearing is that syria and iran are threatening if we tell you action against israel if indeed these attacks prove true now we are hearing from syria that israel did launch a military strike inside their country israel has not commented neither confirming nor denying these reports the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever tell you would happen and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be a surprise now the iranian deputy foreign minister has also said that this israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those are

indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syrian sources is that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two on site workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon now washington reportedly was warned by israel of its intention to strike syria this kind of comment coming from a high ranking american official who spoke on condition that he not be named it is important to mention that a couple of months ago iran's revolutionary guard did say that assad had friends in the region who had not yet entered the fray the quote was of these friends were poised to strike out in case there was an intervention in syria and the warning was to hated arab countries and one can assume that israel tops that list again the

warning saying that none of syria's friends have entered the scene yet but that when they do it will be a decisive blow to the enemy earlier this month israel deployed its i am dome defense missile system to its border with syria meccas of a growing concern that they are. could be some kind of use of chemical weapons as i mentioned earlier we have no comment yet from tel aviv there also has been no comment from washington moscow has said if indeed these reports are accurate that these raids did strike inside syrian territory is a gross violation of the united nations charter the arab league for its side has slammed is role for these alleged strikes saying that they are a flagrant act of aggression and a glaring violation of syria's sovereignty. and archie's policy we are live from tel aviv with the latest on that this scandal thanks for that paula. we

also spoke to me as a q.b. editor of pan-african newswire he says the attack on syria is all part of a plan to bring down the office of government. well it's quite interesting that the israeli government as well as the united states has not officially responded to this provocation against syria it is another bloody situation in which they are opening up a nother front in the war against the government of bashar al assad part of that strategy of course has been a deployment of patriot missiles in turkey which is also a nato country on the border with syria the syrian government that has been quite resolute in its campaign against these rebels over the last two years although the rebel organizations many of which are backed by the united states and the other nato countries have caused a lot of disruption and dislocation inside of syria they have not shaken the result of the syrian government to maintain its position of authority inside the country

so this is of course is another effort on the part of the backers of these rebels to further weaken and destabilize the government in damascus. bug areas government whereis over energy independence it's doing its best to bottom bus and finance and here power plant after invalidating a national referendum that back to the construction plan. for mali and soldiers have been killed after their vehicle hit a landmine reportedly planted by islamist rebels between two towns recently taken from extremists meanwhile information has been lacking on civilian casualties and lame troops of mali into if i should say are now being accused of war crimes we managed to get exclusive footage of their alleged atrocities and spoke to local journalists gonzalo watcha about its origins. as we continue moving north and find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of crimes we have heard of the

murder of a few citizens by molly and soldiers in the town of silver not only did they kill them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok today in the center of the town they can the rest of the population watch rules are hearing of cases where people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly employed as a cook and butler by jihadists who is now being accused of terrorism. after i started working as a cook in the town of do when i went to surveyor there i met an old man and i asked him for a drink of water he said that he won't share water with terrorists i said that i was in a terrorist and i was just thirsty little then i was put into prison i am no terrorist i didn't even know that i was working with militants i only realized that through the rumors i started hearing and then when everyone went on to the frontline i was just cooking food for them no one even talked to me i think persecution is also

reportedly becoming widespread in the area of arabs and said to be persecuted on charges of allegedly collaborating with the militants you know the government and the french troops are fighting against our contacts in timbuktu also told us that shops belonging to arabs are being looted. the french have to retaking the final major city of canal from islamists say they will soon leave mali handing operations over to government troops a lot of finance international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says this is a bad idea considering the low discipline and lack of funding in the west african nation. what i hear now is how this surprises me i mean first of all the million army does hold a grudge against the people who are lost and from the northern part of the country and secondly the soldiers of very low grade and have very little armaments and such as a they're not really a regular army in that sense there's only. hardly

a state apparatus functioning how can your existed people and examine what they do you can't you just ground nic underlying that so the only thing you can do correctly is if you think people might be terrorist is hold them and arrest them and detain them but you certainly will do it is this kind of action judicial executions but entirely surprise me that this is going on right now this country needs support yes this country needs our why is it that this help only comes in the form of military invasions that's a basic question usually we should ask ourselves. and as all of the old fears of sectarian revenge attacks in mali following the france led military campaign more on this as well as images from the conflict on country on r.t. dot com.

the u.s. senate is expected to grill one of president obama's most controversial choices for a key job in his team chuck hagel is likely to be quizzed on everything from relations with israel in the arab world to his view of women in the military as during his confirmation hearing to be new defense secretary ards he's going to can explain why certain political groups are so against his nomination. chuck hagel has been under attack since his name was floated as president obama's pick for the defense secretary position it would see attack ads on all major u.s. t.v. channels saying what a terrible defense secretary chuck hagel would be all who are december and much of january they've been running these ads you know between the car shoals of beauty

products prescription drugs and whatnot so somewhere between those you could catch attack ads like this one secretary of defense chuck hagel president obama says he supports sanctions on iran eagle voted against the legal voted against labeling iran's revolutionary guard a terrorist group and while president obama says all options are on the table for preventing a nuclear iran a girl says military action is not a viable usable responsible option president obama or secretary of defense chuck hagel is not responsible option. that ad was sponsored by the emergency committee for israel so what that truck a will do to deserve that as a u.s. senator chuck hagel has been critical of israel's policies he's been critical of the israeli lobby in washington here's what he said the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do

because i don't think it's in the interest of israel i just don't think it's smart for israel and of quote among other things chuck hagel dared to say that u.s. interests should trump israeli interests if they conflict he supported direct negotiations with iran and unlike many other politicians here in washington who keep repeating the all options on the table mantra but these publicly they say that chuck hagel has been straightforward in saying a strike on iran should not be an option and he has also been a proponent of a more even handed u.s. policy with regards to these really palestinian conflict and the u.s. has been anything but even handed on the issue it's also for statements like this one that he's been under attack take a look this is chuck hagel in two thousand and six the united states will remain committed to defending israel our relationship with israel is a special and historic. but it need not and cannot be at the

expense of our arab and muslim relationships. that is an irresponsible and dangerous fault choice some saw president obama's decision to nominate chuck hagel as his message to these really hard liners we actually heard president obama say there is too much war talk going on and maybe nominating chuck hagel is his way of bringing down the tension and not not everybody here in washington likes that message but what's interesting since the beginning of the attack campaign against chuck hagel over these two months or so many of the attackers have sort of withdrawn their objections over chuck hagel nomination some say could be because they received assurances behind closed doors that as defense secretary chuck hagel is not going to make any drastic moves to really challenge washington's foreign policy orthodoxies. four hundred million dollars in debt and ukraine has had to ask russia for more time to pay find out online how it managed to get so far into the

red and how it hopes to get out. and the craving for call energy hungry china is burning as much of the black stuff as the rest of the world combined with levels of air pollution in the country skyrocketing costs on line for you. but various government is expected to block the russian finance construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project the vote however was invalidated due to a low turnout will carry his allies in europe in the u.s. feared the project would mean energy dependence on russia and p. vermont of charo of says authorities did their best to bring the vote down.

but trams and trolleybuses come to a standstill and doctors walk out on their wards in greece after the break we poured on a new flurry of protest paralyzing greece as citizens face up to

a government bent on still more austerity. and eric smith says there are many monsters lurking in the dark spots of the world wide web stay with us to find out what the google terror men and so concerned about. the first baby steps are joy. folds and bones are not a big deal. but they can cause terrible trauma. for children can be broken by dare touch. and only the will of life can make. and source. fragile people on are today. wealthy british style not.

the time to write the next go around the. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. welcome back you're with r t live from moscow athens has again ground to a halt with public transport workers and doctors joining a twenty four hour walk out over pension cuts it comes a day after protesters entered the labor minister's office with police and demonstrators then clashing in the streets lawyer george cultural galo says the

heavy handed response from authorities is intended to send a message. the government has decided to follow up on receipt of zero tolerance as it say's ideas that existence of your state emissions show will have steam the government to take in medicine measures that they are unconstitutional i guess they're very centrist and now we have seen the door of their release blocked very violently against a generally peaceful and kind of the most recent well seen in the last three or four weeks i campaign of propaganda try to convince us that now their worst is becoming best there is i don't believe that this is true is exactly because we are following this same set of policies of which thirty minutes of the for three years has condemned the us five of slow death that this recession of the economy going to actually move the economy on a third source of measures both by

a vote of the population and also the socialites i think that as far as what we're following this set of. there's of course. britain's government has raised taxes twice as fast as cutting them according to a new report but i have damper on david cameron's pledge to create a lower tax country figure so that almost three hundred duty hikes from the ruling coalition and further complicating an already notorious system archies polly boy has the story. by the end of this parliament the u.k. public will have seen cuts to some one hundred and nineteen various taxes that all sounds great but for a government that's promised to create a lower tax country needs that they've actually increased some two hundred ninety nine of this hank says might be somewhat confusing the brits the same going to see an extra levy on carbon dioxide emissions that means energy bills again to go up

they're also going to see and in. which means more expensive air travel and then some of the recent changes to u.k. tax law quite simply bizarre revenue and customs recently increased to be eighty for hairdressers renting a chair and a cylon and then who can forget the recent baked goods scandal when u.k. tax code stated that it pasty would only be taxed if it was sold at above ambient temperatures critics say the system is simply too chaotic britain has one of the most complex times. hard times they kill jobs increase prices and it lowers wages so the time went from these are struggling with the rise in cost of living the idea so many times increases will really make life difficult for them it's clear that the british government is in desperate need of cash to deal with the dismal public

finances which means that by trimming a little bit of tax here and adding more tax burden that by twenty fifteen the u.k. treasury hopes to get an extra eighty four billion pounds in tax compared with the year before they came to power but critics say that once again is the british public which ends up out of pocket. artsy london. at six thirty a sixteen thirty i should say g.m.t. max cons are in stacy herbert focus on how british authorities are handling that financial crisis and how they've tried to manipulate public perception of the issue . google's eric schmidt house put forward a scary vision of what the internet could become in the future he says hackers could use the web to launch attacks with drones and that embarrassing information

about you could be stored and used against you at any time or. has more. the image of a human future liberated by technology and hunger teleportation and so on just got a reality dose from a guy who knows eric schmidt who is worth one point five billion dollars and the chairman of google voice his views on in the internet and the dangers that lurk within it warned that as technology becomes cheaper and easier to use cyber terrorists could use the web to run a drone war a century or nerd in california could fly a drone strike a target in a remote part of the world in fact schmidt says hackers will be known as cyber terrorists could well become the targets of the same drones but it's not only about potential terrorists states and governments can use cyber technology to isolate and distort the lives and appearance of their critics call this online ethnic cleansing

moreover a cyber identities that's your online avatar in social networks could be taken hostage for ransom actually there are already cases of hackers remotely blocking personal computers and demanding cash tool or feet cyber identities me soon also form a global black market where users will be able to buy an identity the always dreamed of in real life also pointed to the record so much of our lives are stored on servers now any past mistakes will be there for all the world to see typically at the worst possible moment when you're applying for that job mortgage making the marriage proposal or running to become president in fact the lives of everyone will be so while it will have to teach children about cyber safety before safe sex well these are only predictions but smith's depressing vision for the internet is a reminder to be careful whatever you post and do online may bite you back when you least expect it. now to some international news in brief this hour

defined his own government's warnings against traveling to libya british pm david cameron has flown into tripoli on a surprise visit the prime minister pledged the u.k. support for the country invalid to help with its democratic transition earlier british authorities warned of an imminent threat against its embassy in tripoli warning citizens to the country. north korean leader kim jong un has reportedly imposed martial law and told his troops to be ready for war as a nuclear test looms the isolated communist state is widely expected to hold its third overtasked late next month meanwhile hundreds of protesters in south korea have called for the north to back down from its military threats seoul has warned pyongyang there will be great consequences if it goes ahead with a nuclear detonation. two hundred people including dozens of children have been injured in a train crash outside pretoria in south africa authorities say the first train

smashed into a second stationary one stopped outside the station twenty kilometers from the city emergency services arrived on the scene to find many of the injured walking along the tracks. in egypt's top politicians have reportedly signed a document renouncing widespread violence at protests across the country the agreement came at a meeting attended by leaders of the muslim brotherhood and the heads of liberal and secular opposition movements it was called as president morsi cut short his trip to germany over the ongoing unrest at home without securing any backing from berlin blogger and journalist while i skimmed or says if morsi had received european support tensions may have spiked further. i think the public the public will be very upset if you know a foreign country would start lending

a hand. to president mohamed morsi while he is executing these very oppressive measures against his people he has cracked down on a lot of freedoms sidelined editors arrested people and justly and i think that. the sentiment in egypt is basically a rejection of mohamed morsi and the monopoly on power that he that he has and it's not so much as mohamed morsi he's he's viewed here as a puppet to the guidance bureau so unless he starts taking control and actually doing steps taking the country forward towards a democratic transition i think people will not be pleased otherwise. now me back with more news in around thirty minutes time coming up after start break it's our special report that's out.

you know i can kind of sort of understand the mindset of an evil dictator i have trouble understanding what is going on or maybe not going on in the minds of the terrified cogs who believe all the propaganda give up all their rights for the lucian of safety to coach jerry seinfeld who are these people well maybe some of them may be working at your local school braindead bureaucracy zombies at a pennsylvania school suspended a kindergartner note kindergartner as a terrorist threat because she threatened to shoot another student with a gun that shoots soap bubbles i guess this was all a mix up because the girl she wanted to shoot didn't understand that it was in reference to bubbles and not bullets children in kindergarten can often misunderstand things but the administration of the school seems to be no smarter than six year olds immediately going into total panic mode guess what this is

hardly the first time that something like this has happened remember the kid who pointed a piece of chicken at a teacher and said bang the thing is that the real terrorism of the event is that the mental sleeves of fear propaganda that work at these schools are raising a generation of children to be just like the somebody shoot me with a bubble gun that's just my opinion. now philly's it was born the doctors told us she had multiple fractures they also said lisa would be a difficult child to handle she was bedridden the first year after she had to eat and sleep on a cushion because she would cry when we touched her. yet

i probably fell from the chair and i had from the sofa and that didn't hurt at all but then i fell off the arm chair and i broke my leg. i cried for a while. and then at those sleep. but why why why why did it have to be us. i. will. kill. you social last year ginny's a simple fact is one of the most common congenital.